Multisite, Multisite Development, Multisite Tutorials

How to Build a Web Hosting or Design Business with WordPress Multisite

by Joe Foley April 17^th, 2013 55 Responses

Maybe you’ve had a talent for technology or design nearly all your life. Or maybe you just stumbled onto WordPress one day when looking to set up your own site. And then that one day led to another, and soon you were finding your way around the WordPress backend pretty well.

And then time and time again you started running into people who “wanted a website” but didn’t really have the first clue about how to build one. At some point it probably dawned you – Hey, I could make some money doing this.

Web Host vs. Designer: Which is right for you?

multisite, Multisite Development, Multisite Plugins, Multisite Tutorials

WordPress Multisite Guide for Beginners: Unlock the Power of Networks

by Joe Foley March 18^th, 2013 20 Responses

Even the average user can see that WordPress is a powerful and flexible platform. But there’s more to WordPress than meets the eye.

Just below the surface, and somewhat hidden away, there is an even more powerful mode that WordPress possesses – a mode called Multisite.

Enabling this mode allows you to turn a single WordPress installation into a network of sites. Thousands of sites, if you like. Hundreds of thousands. Even millions.

Development, Multisite Development, Tutorials

Set Up A Killer WordPress Test Environment Locally using MAMP on OSX

by Harley Alexander March 12^th, 2013 15 Responses

For the majority of articles I write, I begin with a fresh install of WordPress. It’s the best way to ensure control when you have people following along and doing exactly what you do.

It would be very tedious if for each article I wrote, I had to create an entirely new WordPress instance. That would require a fresh database, the most recent version of WordPress, a new user, etc.

The answer, of course, is WordPress Multisite. (Btw, check out our Multisite guides here.)

Multisite Development, Multisite Plugins, WPMU DEV

New & Improved Post Indexer Plugin Explodes Your Multisite’s Potential

by Joe Foley March 6^th, 2013 2 Responses

If you run a WordPress Multisite install, then no doubt you’ve had your hands full trying to manage and/or display posts from across your network.

At WPMU DEV, we’ve built a whole host of plugins that help you do that, everything from Recent Global Posts Widget to Global Site Search to Global Site Tags and many more.

What you might not realize is that all of those plugins rely on a very powerful behind-the-scenes plugin called Post Indexer.

And so today is very good news for Multisite owners because the Post Indexer just got even more powerful.

What It Does

Multisite Development

How To Limit The WordPress Posts Screen To Only Show Authors Their Own Posts

by Sarah Gooding February 5^th, 2013 6 Responses

When working on a multi-author WordPress blog, the post listing screen can get a little bit crowded. Sometimes you have to hunt through many posts that are not your own before locating a draft you’ve been working on.

Here’s a quick way that you can change the posts page to show only the author’s own posts. I found this handy tip over at WP Snippets and have updated it and made into a little plugin.

Make it easy for authors to find their own posts

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How To Make a Site Private In WordPress Multisite

by Sarah Gooding January 4^th, 2013 2 Responses

When it comes to the subject of privacy, more options are usually better. Bloggers and members of your site are more likely to trust and recommend your community if they know that they have the option to protect their content.

WordPress Multisite Privacy Settings
By default, WordPress Multisite has two site visibility settings under the Settings >> Privacy menu, both related to search engines:

Allow search engines to index this site
Ask search engines not to index this site

If you want more privacy options, it’s as easy as installing a plugin.

WordPress Multisite Plugin: More Privacy Options

Multisite Development

Project Management in the WordPress Dashboard

by Craig Grella December 29^th, 2012 19 Responses

A good project management system lets you keep track of (and manage) projects within your organization. It lets you relate and assign tasks to contacts, set milestones and goals, and it provides an easy to use interface for messaging other members of your team.

Every organization has unique needs, which means no project management system is perfect for every situation, but the WP Project Manager plugin is a great place to start if you want to bring simple project management functionality into your WordPress Dashboard.

Business word cloud for business concept, Project management

Multisite Development, Multisite Tutorials

How to Build Multilingual Sites With WordPress

by November 21^st, 2012 6 Responses

One of the biggest challenges facing us as web designers is making our websites fully multilingual. Gone are the days when a localised version of a site would be enough. The web has become a global marketplace where people now hunt for products not available in their domestic market or are looking for cheaper vendors abroad.

Multisite Development, Multisite Tutorials, Plugins, WordPress Tutorials

Clone Sites Within A WordPress Multisite Network

by Sarah Gooding November 8^th, 2012 11 Responses

If you manage a WordPress multisite network where you, as the admin, set up each site individually, there’s a new plugin that should save you quite a bit of time. NS Cloner – Site Copier gives multisite admins the ability to easily clone individual sites in your network within a matter of seconds.